... Following the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York in 2001, there has been increased interest in examining new approaches for ensuring adequate protection to water and wastewater infrastructure ... recovery efforts following any natural disaster andfor maintaining the standard of living for our everyday lives The systems responsible for delivering such fundamental commodities in the United ... systems • Institutional and management issues in responding to natural and manmade threats • Progress in developing techniques and approaches for natural and manmade threat response in water and wastewater...
... Medicine at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, USA He is also appointed as Associate Clinical Professor of Epidemiology and Social Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, ... place themselves in harm's way to rescue the innocent, and without their efforts many more would have perished They will not be forgotten meeting abstracts Like many parents in town, I took my ... Manhattan skyline that now stands forever changed, and us with it research More than month since the attack, people still talk about funerals and memorials that they have attended, cars that remained...
... because the Internet has disseminated sophisticated information about bioterrorism, comprehensive guidelines on managing all kinds of outbreaks, from anthrax to smallpox, are needed Finally, in the ... probably resulted in more problems than all other factors combined”, they say, going on to suggest that “time, effort, and resources were wasted … because of lack of direction and information” (page ... treating post-traumatic stress disorder has “only a marginal effect”, and that early intervention, in the form of critical incident stress management, can “limit the establishment of maladaptive and...
... involving themselves in situations for which they where unprepared, untrained, and unequipped Several lone physicians, dressed in scrubs and running shoes, where found in the collapse zone providing ... setting up the Staten Island Ferry Casualty Collection Point While working around the tip of lower Manhattan, we saw a flotilla of every conceivable craft rushing into port, standing against ... could find, in an attempt to help civilians (injured to varying degrees) get away from the dust and debris covering Manhattan We set up an aide station inside the ferry terminal capable of treating...
... or maintaining the airway until further care is available Finally, class includes victims with minimal injuries that are trapped in protected coves where they will have some protection from further ... and rendered 540,000 homeless Reproduced with permission from UNEP GRID-Arendal/The Times Atlas of the World Classifying the injured Clear thinkers required In any rescue effort, clear thinking ... adding injury review Teaching the uninjured survivors Critical Care December 2001 Vol No Crippen good but uncoordinated intentions severely obstruct the efforts of the rescue teams Clear thinking...
... group should expect and teach coping strategies, including the importance of resuming normal activities and the value of continued dialog with friends and family Reserved for dramatic events, ... line of duty, coworkers committing suicide, significant events involving children, incidents involving relatives or knowing the victims, excessive media interest, and disaster or mass casualty ... associated with disaster medicine Nevertheless, several studies suggest that personnel involved in disaster medicine, especially those involved with the recovery and identification of human remains,...
... phones were given to key people in administration andin nursing, improving coordination We were fortunate that our cell phone service remained intact If it were interrupted, the Nextel system ... unfortunate when a trained rescuer loses his life in the line of duty However, they are trained and prepared to work in suboptimal and dangerous environments Most physicians have no such training ... will be unreliable and expected transport routes and methods may be unavailable Without guidance, EMS crews will bring the injured to the closest hospital, further stressing existing resources The...
... stockpiling drugs prior to establishing a realistic policy and developing an infrastructure of real-time response Detection systems of incident reporting, Gram staining, bacterial culture, and purchasing ... public awareness, creating some panic and hysteria, and creating significant heightened awareness and frustration in hospitals and among health care workers Documents addressing CBT preparedness ... Following the earthquakes in Mexico City, the explosion in Oklahoma City, the World Trade Center attack, the floods in Houston, and the events in Atlanta during the Olympics (to name just those within...
... levels in Lower Manhattan were in compliance with existing standards.54 While compliance with existing standards, if demonstrated via a comprehensive monitoring network, is indeed reassuring information, ... toxics continues for Ground Zero workers who are moving and removing debris and may be resuspending already settled contaminated dust Another continuing 15 concern for outdoor air quality in the ... creating a New York City Committee of Environmental Science and Health 24 Advisors to work, in conjunction with the Board of Health, with city officials in evaluating information and communicating...
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... Industry Ministry of Machine Building Ministry of Machine Building and Electronics Industries Ministry of Machinery Industry Ministry of Agriculture Ministry of Commerce Ministry of Finance Ministry ... state agree with Adam Smith “by eliminating both public and private monopolies and liberalizing trade” and also agree with Keynesian forms of regulating banking, stock markets and labour standards ... The reform, according to Yang (2004: 56), “helped reduce overlapping functions” in the central government “that induce infighting and gridlock” For example, the Ministry of Information Industry...
... agricultural machinery or technical equipments for only 60 percent of standard market prices, while paying 20 percent of their initial value and the rest within the following 10 years with no interest ... financial crisis that emerged in late 2008 and fall in output of oil and gas industries However, the growth in imports was largely attributable to the continuously rising domestic demand on foreign ... growth in investment and productivity may in turn expand domestic industries, in which the country enjoys a comparative advantage, thereby promoting economic growth and improving social welfare In...
... restrictions on foreign entry and ownership, as well as most forms of discrimination against foreign firms, China has set the stage for increases in foreign investment and productivity in these sectors ... average tariffs in 2001 and 2007 are 12.2% and 6.3%, respectively, for China, and 4.5% and 3.1%, respectively, for Chinese Taipei China to the government In either case, the marginal return from ... being removed in order to bring China into compliance with the TRIMs agreement According to GTAP v.4 (McDougall et al., 1998), 14% of imports were for final consumption and according to China’s...
... low-wage industries in New York City, and engineering services, brokerage, and legal services are important high-wage industries Although eating and drinking establishments is an important low-wage industry, ... streets surrounding the attack site, and parts of the telecommunications and power infrastructure in Lower Manhattan, including a switching facility and substations In all, the resulting loss to ... died in the attack earned, on average, $127,000 a year This estimate is based on the average income in 2000 for all workers in Manhattan and all workers in the finance and insurance sectors in...
... difference in the average income tax cut received by individuals withand without children, in various income classes.22 In 2001, low-income individuals with children—those with AGI between $10,000 and ... $50,000 Within this AGI class in 2010, the percentage change in after-tax income for those with children is almost two -and- a-half times larger than it is for individuals without children In addition, ... people in the filing unit The threshold increases with family size, and it is higher for married couples than for singles and heads of household Absent other credits, in 2000, a single person with...
... participation in this study of several national ISPs and one New York regional ISP, together with the anecdotal information obtained though informal information-sharing relationships within the Internet ... and information infrastructure People rely on it for business, social, and personal activities of many kinds, and government depends on it for communications and transactions with the media and ... accepted way of SUMMARY AND FINDINGS standardizing what information is collected and integrating the data to enable characterization of the Internet’s overall health Therefore, ready comparison...
... participation in this study of several national ISPs and one New York regional ISP, together with the anecdotal information obtained though informal information-sharing relationships within the Internet ... and information infrastructure People rely on it for business, social, and personal activities of many kinds, and government depends on it for communications and transactions with the media and ... accepted way of SUMMARY AND FINDINGS standardizing what information is collected and integrating the data to enable characterization of the Internet’s overall health Therefore, ready comparison...
... true and abiding, can win the highest positions in public and private life, and dying leave behind a heritage for their children, and an example for all who would prosper along the same lines And ... husband's circumstances warrant him in establishing and maintaining a home Granting, then, the right kind of a wife, and the ability to make a home, the young man, with the right kind of stuff in ... union in life with a high-minded woman There he finds rest, contentment, and happiness rest of brain and peace of spirit He will also often find in her his best counselor, for her instinctive...
... breathing, and whilst Casimir and Hippolyte were getting abominably intoxicated, she sat there thinking things over, and gradually becoming so irritated that she felt the rebellion within her ... philosophy, an infallible receipt for bringing about universal happiness, an unheard-of idea for manufacturing masterpieces, some invention for dressing up and having a perpetual carnival in the streets ... the following lines are written in the handwriting of Buloz: Information prepared by the Project Gutenberg legal advisor 41 "In the morning on getting up he discovered, in an adjoining room,...